On January 14, 2016, Brookings convened roundtable discussions about the future of distributed ledger technology with industry and policy stakeholders, where Barry Silbert stated: *”My company is called DCG and I can tell you as I was thinking about what to call it: One, I didn’t want to call it bitcoin blah blah blah, because we are now 7 years into this experiment and it’s highly likely that bitcoin will not be the winner – today I think it will be – but it is likely it won’t be longer…